Cigarette-package



1.1. FLEMING.

CIGARETTE PACKAGE.

APPLICATION HLED SEPT. 23. 1919.

Patented Feb. 3, 1920.

J OI-IN J. FLEMING, OF CMLMBRIDG1?,` MASSACHUSETTS.

CIGARET CCE-PACKAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 3, 1920.

Application filed September 23, 1919.- Seral No. 325,659

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. FLEMING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cigarette-Packages, oi which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a cigarette package including a bunch of cigarettes, contacting with each other throughout the bunch, and a wrapper or casing therefor, closely coniining the bunch, the arrangement being such that when the casing is opened at one end, the user is enabled to grasp some of the cigarettes between his thumb and linger and withdraw the same more conveniently than heretofore and without liability of iiijury to the cigarettes, until the bunch is so loosened that the remaining cigarettes may `be conveniently grasped and withdrawn.

I accomplish this result by inserting in the inner end of the casing, or the end oppositie the end which is opened, to permit the withdrawal or' the cigarettes, a positioning device, which supports the ends o1 some of the cigarettes oii'set endwise outwardly from the ends o1'z others, the bunch presenting at the opened outer end ot' the casing, a key row or cigarettes, the outer end portions of the members or which project sutliciently from the adjoining rows to enable them to be conveniently grasped between the users thumb and finger, and withdrawn, until the bunch is suliiciently loosened to permit any of the remaining cigarettes to be conveniently grasped and withdrawn.

OIE the accompanying drawing forming a.

part of this specification,

Figure l is a side view of a cigarette package embodying the invention shown partly in section.

F ig. :2 is a perspective view of the positioning device shown in section by Fig. 1.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the igures.

In the drawings 12 represents a wrapper containing a bunch of cigarettes 13, arranged in rows, the cigarettes being hunched and the wrapper applied in the usual or any suitable way, the wrapper entirely inclosing the bunch.

In carrying out the invention, I insert in the wrapper, in Contact with the inner end thereof, a false bottom formed to support cigarettes in a different plane from the ends oit the others, so that, when the package is opened at its outer end the end which is uppermost in the drawing, the upper ends of alternate rows of cigarettes project from the upper ends of the other rows as indicated by dotted lines, the projecting ends being exposed at opposite sides, and thus adapted to be conveniently grasped between a thumb and finger for removal. W'hen the projecting cigarettes have been removed the others are loose in the wrapper so that they may be removed without ditiiculty.

The false bottom 14 may be oi' corrugated sheet material such as paper, the corrugations presenting alternating depressed and raised portions adapted to support the ends or' some of the cigarettes in a different plane from the ends of the others.

The false bottom and the cigarettes may be assembledbefore the casing is applied, and then inclosed by the casing.

A cigarette package embodying the invention does not require any change in, or modification of the wrapper, or inclosing portion, other than to slightly increase the length or distance between the inner and outer ends. The false bottom 13 does not appreciably add to the expense of the package.

In pointing out the invention by the appended claim, I call the rows whose outer ends are nearest the outer end of the casing, the higher rows, and the others the lower rows. As shown by the drawing, the rows forming two opposite sides of the bunch, are higher rows, so that these and the intermediate higher rows collectively forin an extended support on which the outer end of the casing lies flat.

I claim:

A cigarette package comprising a casing adapted to be opened at its outer end, and a bunch of cigarettes arranged in rows and confined by the casing in close Contact with each other throughout the bunch, the

casing being provided at its inner end with a thumb and linger and withdrawn from the means supporting alternate rows higher bunch, Jche withdrawal of said row loosenthan the other rows, the higher rows forniing the bunch and facilitating the removal 10 ing an extended support for the outer end of of the remaining cigarettes.

the casing, said higher rows being spaced In testimony whereof I have affixed my apart so that when the casing is opened, the signature. members of a higher row may be grasped by JOHN J. FLEMING. 

